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to the webmaster: can you change the title please? There is no mentoning in the article about a suspension of the A400 programm. My posting about the overrun at Lanzarote was also corrected. Might want to actually read the article! " France's Les Echos newspaper reported on Tuesday that EADS h...

Not a surprising move by Airbus, considering the losses they have already incurred.

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1225791238.html

The end may truly be near after failing to negotiate a deal with the Union's, all this may have been an exercise in futility.

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1225354555.html

Delta and NW have merged to create the worlds largest airline:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... id=topnews

As bad as things seem now, they're only going to get worse.

OPEC has announced they will decrease production and that will probably stop the fall of the oil price.
hopefully it's a stop and not a rebound.


And more bad news: http://startelegram.typepad.com/sky_tal ... rop-i.html

Also airlines hedge or contract fuel prices, sometimes up to a year or more. If BA hedged their price at say € 3.00 per gallon and the price goes up, they pay €3.00 and on the flip side if the prices drop to €2.50 per gallon, they still pay €3.00 per gallon. It's a contract good or bad, some airline...

Keep an eye on Indigo ! A report from Indian Aviation: The load factors for rival low-cost carrier IndiGo, too, slipped from 68% last September to about “55-60%”, according to IndiGo’s president Aditya Ghosh. Kingfisher Red flew its aircraft 39% full in August, the lowest for any carrier in that mon...

Being located fairly close to Boeing's facilities I am fortunate to have the ability to hear the intricacy's of whats going on with the labour dispute. 1. This is going to be a very long strike, Boeing has learned a hard lesson from the failure of the Auto Industry and its unions, and that lesson is...

Well I think everyone will have to wait for a while until the financial disaster sorts itself out. You couldn't buy a loan for aircraft right now, never mind applying for one. I think there is going to be some massive failures in the Industry in the next year accompanied by a huge drop in air travel...

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080928/t ... 68574.html

Some new developments in the ongoing Tanker Saga!

Government subsidies as ascertained by the WTO will now become one of the decision factors in the bid process.

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/w ... dies.shtml

And now the blame game begins:


http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsN ... 0620080925

Just an opinion but not nearly as costly as proceeding. EADS/Airbus should graciously announce that the problems facing the A400M are insurmountable economically, and the company and it's customers would be better served if the project was canceled, of course compensation would be required but I thi...

The end is here, barring a miracle Alitalia will cease operations this week. Reuters report: Italy in last bid to sell Alitalia STEPHEN BROWN, Reuters ROME — Alitalia's special administrator will make a last-ditch attempt to sell Italy's loss-making national airline on Monday by public tender before...

Long suffering from numerous delays, the future of the A400M is now threatened by delivery compensation.

Some analysts claim that any profit to be made by the aircraft has disappeared already.

http://www.france24.com/en/20080920-ead ... eeze-A400M

very cool stuff:

http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/cockpit1.htm

The D.O.D. statement announcing the cancellation of the re-bid process, so it's all over and done. The new Administration of Obama or McCain will have to deal with a totally new proposal process. The Air Force and the D.O.D. better have all their ducks in row this time, or there will be some serious...

No technical reasons have been revealed, but I'm sure there will be a million blogs about it.


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